Digital Tweed

Drawing on the experience of Microsoft's Bill Gates and IBM's Lou Gerstner, student tutors may be the solution for presidents and provosts who wish to enhance their understanding of digital pedagogy and better understand the learning experiences of their students and the instructional initiatives of their faculty.

The peak months of the annual academic hiring cycle provide an interesting opportunity to ask yourself: how did you get here?

In the campus conversations about innovation and instruction, it's the fear of trying, and the accompanying absence of institutional support and recognition, that impedes faculty efforts at innovation.

What appears to be the largest fake news scam of the fall election was perpetrated by a recent graduate of a “good” liberal arts college.

Colleges and universities lose talented people because, increasingly, campus opportunities are not competitive with options elsewhere.

In higher education as elsewhere, we often limit the public discussion about infrastructure to the things we buy (technology), build (offices, labs, and libraries) or need to update (plumbing, power, and networks). Yet our people are a critical, if often overlooked, part of the essential infrastructure in higher education.

Great conference experiences are marked by engaging conversations.

I'll be in San Diego next week conducting online, interactive interviews at the ASU GSV Innovation Summit. We hope the interviews will help to connect the Summit presenters and participants in San Diego with education professionals in schools and on college campuses.